Universal Porn Filter Coming to the U.K.

[EeveeElectro]

Just a thought, they better ban page three models and porn magazines too then if we're going this far.
Child could easily find dad's stash and what's stopping a kid thinking "Page three? So... women need to have their boobies out for us to like them?" or something.

 

[Danny Ocean]

PORNOGRAPHY IS RUINING OUR CHILDREN!!

Oh, fuck off UK. Knowing about sex doesn't ruin your fucking kid's childhood-- having all of your hopes and dreams crushed by the grinding block of tedius social obligations does. If you want kids to be innocent for long, lessen their fucking work load and stop trying to turn schools into competitive careers

Please tell me that wasn't deliberately aimed at the entire United Kingdom.
Our toff Government doesn't speak for every resident of this country...

It doesn't even speak for a majority.

Goddam I hate FPTP. I also hate everyone who voted against AV. That was a clear cut-and-try decision, featuring an unambiguously superior option, which people rejected purely as a result of the half-truths and slander put about by the Tory government.

 

[Genocidicles]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/family-filters-wont-block-soft-porn-david-cameron-retreats-in-war-on-internet-porn-admitting-there-will-be-problems-down-the-line-8726991.html

It's probably not going to happen.

He says softcore porn and erotic literature wont get filtered, as well as websites discussing sexual health and sexuality.

It's going to be impossible to differentiate between what's allowed and what isn't, unless ISPs have hordes of people going through every website deciding what's softcore and what's hardcore.

If this ridiculous filter does somehow managed to get implemented, I can see it lasting a week before it's taken down because of all the issues it causes.

 

[GameChanger]

Tell me. Has anything you have ever seen on the internet 'corrupted' you? Has looking at porn ever changed a person's ability to function in society? Has porn, as it is right now, been a 'corrosive' to anyone's brain, ever before?

I am honestly asking this. I sincerely want to know if there have been events that might have sparked this (ridiculous beyond human comprehension) move Mr. Cameron made.

 

[mad825]

So terrible. Also, what do they classify as "rape porn"? Videos of people being raped or videos of people pretending to be raped?

Both...

Under BBFC guidelines, they are subjected to be censored/cut. All films that featured these kind of "rape" scenes were placed under the declassification of the Video Recordings Act 1984. Since VRA 2010, most of them were classified simple because it wasn't depicted "to any significant extent".

I swear to god, I don't know how the Darkness series got pass the censors.

It's going to be impossible to differentiate between what's allowed and what isn't, unless ISPs have hordes of people going through every website deciding what's softcore and what's hardcore.

If this ridiculous filter does somehow managed to get implemented, I can see it lasting a week before it's taken down because of all the issues it causes.

Easy, you pay someone to do it for you.

Spoiler

OT:

Child Exploitation and Online Protection Center to investigate "secretive file-sharing networks," create a secure database of child pornography

Oh this will never get hacked or leaked! Gosh, what would happen if the security was compromised?

 

[mrhateful]

This fucking country sometimes...I wish more than anything I had the kind of money to move out, but unfortunately I'm stuck with a ridiculously conservative nation that doesn't give a single iota to what "I" want.

If only it was a conservative nation then stuff like that wouldn't happen( Don't assume just because a politician calls himself conservative means that he is) ><, still pretty wasteful of resources.

 

[Soxafloppin]

I'm just wondering what there going to start blaming next, when this doesn't change I think I mean.

 

[shirkbot]

What a self-righteous twit. Fight child porn by finding the creators and distributors, not banning all porn at the ISP level. Besides, don't you have other things to deal with? How's that whole crackdown on international tax-evasion going Davey? Have you had that little talk with the city of London yet? No? Then shut up.

 

[putowtin]

Way to lose the next election Cameron!
Instead of looking at parents who give their children phones and laptops without having the first clue how they work or how to put a content filter on them you treat the whole country as though we're to blame?

Fu*k that!

 

[Danny Ocean]

*snip*

Besides all the witty jabs, your only assertion is that it would result in "endless coalitions." To which I say:

1. No it doesn't, in theory and in practice, and here's someone more qualified than I am to say why. [http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/archives/7584]

2. Even if it did- so what? What is so appealing to you about ignoring the desires of over half of the electorate?

Regularly.

 

[EightGaugeHippo]

Worried about CHILD pornography? then ban CHILD pornography.

I'm gunna start a Fapeasy. Like a speakeasy but with fapping.

It's not just about Child porn, its about porn teaching kids about sex, which is wrong.
Porn and sex are two different things.

When I was a child I didn't have a smart phone or a pc, we got taught about sex in school.
Now, since every kid has their own laptop or phone that can connect to the internet its only a matter of time before they find porn and get the wrong ideas about what sex is.

When the block is introduced, you can opt out of it, providing you are the one who pays for your internet its fairly hassle free.
The only people I can see this effecting are hormonal teens who just discovered what wanking is and are too afraid to ask their parents to "turn on the porn"

While I agree with his ideas, I disagree with David Cameron's existence and the fact he is allowed a position of power.

 

[Angelblaze]

Oh, please! Stop scaremongering, people. This law has already existed for television since .... the invention of television, without any dreadful consequences for liberty. They're not coming for your guns. You can still have your wanks once you've opted in to it again. People with kids appreciate this, although they shouldn't rely on it.

They could just watch their fucking children like actual parents but hey, fuck doing your job right? Just sit your kid in front of a computer, let them get fat and lazy and become your normal COD troll and then blame the violence in video games and the porn for turning him that way.

Main problem I see with this is not the prohibition on freedom of speech that may come out of this but rather the hormonal decisions the teens who are affected by this will make - can't watch porn?

Better have sex.

Not saying its for sure but someone's gonna make a poor decision, parents gonna get mad, the whole song and teen mom baby mama drama dance.

 

[Harrowdown]

I'm seriously sick of Cameron. He pushes his 'Big Society' agenda as an effort to reduce meddlesome government oversight from peoples lives (when it's really only a way for him to offload responsibility for failing public services onto the unqualified and inexperienced), then he turns round and does this shit. Remember also, that this is the same man that refused to regulate the sale of pornographic images in high street stores. Because pictures of scantily clad, objectified women being sold literally right alongside children's magazines is totally harmless, yet assuming that parent's are capable of regulating their own homes responsibly is somehow irresponsible.

 

[Gigano]

Well, hardly surprising, the UK have a strong tradition of puritanical censorship and invasion of privacy, adults being unable to consent to BDSM and whatnot. The UK will yet again reveal its pathetic inability to actually regulate the net as oppressively as it wish though, while digital anti-censorship measures will be common knowledge. The only way to accurately describe this idea is "Epic fail"... before its even been implemented.

Bringing the hidden file sharing services of the dark net to mass media attention would seem a greater issue though. God knows how many will seek them out after hearing Cameron's disdain, and find more than they bargained for.

 

[Li Mu]

This fucking country sometimes...I wish more than anything I had the kind of money to move out, but unfortunately I'm stuck with a ridiculously conservative nation that doesn't give a single iota to what "I" want.

Do you have £1000 and half a brain? If so, there's nothing stopping you from leaving the UK.
Stop making excuses and get on with it.

 

[Li Mu]

Well, hardly surprising, the UK have a strong tradition of puritanical censorship and invasion of privacy, adults being unable to consent to BDSM and whatnot.

Can you give examples please? I certainly haven't heard about anyone being unable to consent to BDSM.
What kind of puritanical censorship are you referring to? I guess you could mean cigarette packaging and advertising, which is also going on in many other countries across Europe and the world. Other than that, I can't think of any examples.

 

[Atmos Duality]

"I'm not making this speech because I want to moralize or scare-monger...

He says right after doing BOTH OF THOSE THINGS.
You aren't fooling anyone here, Cameron.

...but because I feel profoundly as a politician, and as a father, that the time for action has come. This is, quite simply, about how we protect our children and their innocence."

Oh yes. "Save teh childrens!" Because that has just been a colossal boon for humanity since its inception...
At least the adults who want their legal adult content have some say in the matter. For now anyway.

 

[SushiJaguar]

The only poisonous and corruptive influence I've ever had in my life was going to school. The only thing I took away from my education was that you can do anything you want as long as you're on the majority side.

 

[Sir Shockwave]

Ladies and Gentlemen, British SOPA has come.

Also, have we got any clerical way of telling what is or isn't a Porn site? I mean this filter could end up damaging more sites than you possibly think it would.

Proof again that Cameron is a moron, and should be booted out of office by way of revolution.

 

[Tynian]

You'll excuse me, I'm sure, if I don't take any parenting advice about protecting any fruit of my loins from the big bad internet from a guy who famously left his own daughter in the pub.

It's parental, not governmental, responsibility to monitor what your child does online.

If you, as a parent, can't take reasonable precautions to make sure they're not subject to the types of people online who'll happily take advantage of said child to further their own ends, well, that's what the foster care programme is for.

The government in the UK needs to stop making it's policies based on the scaremongering of tabloid newspapers looking for sales.